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After receiving a more than generous delivery from my favorite yogurt folks just the other day I was more than excited to get in the kitchen and try out something new!!

Okay, well more realistically, I was excited to come up with a super simple yet flavorful recipe that I could throw together on a Sunday and have for lunches for a few meals during the week… yea yea yea

After a post-Super Bowl bedtime of wayyyy too late o’clock followed up with the random early body-clock-alarm-wakeup I was seriously struggling for energy yesterday!

Good thing I had planned on throwing together a crockpot meal to be ready & waiting upon my arrival home

Gave me plenty of time to relax and get in a rejuvenating yoga session.

Has anyone else tried the Body by Bethanny yoga workout on ExTV? I absolutely love her first of all, plus am really liking this workout on days where I want some physical activity but not too much, ya know?

Perfect for this particular Monday if you ask me

After yoga was over it was time to serve up some dinner.

Crockpot, sometimes I think we may be soulmates… you make my life so easy on days that just seem to be so hard!

Well after dinner last night The Man informed me that we had no dessert left… *gasp* the horror!

Being a mandatory after dinner event in our house Friday night and all, I decided, why not whip up some homemade cookies with some things we had on hand… couldn’t be that hard right?!

Well luckily, I was right! And the results were just lovely

Peanut Butter Banana Chocolate Cake-Cookies

1 banana, mashed

3 large spoonfuls peanut butter

4 tblsp sugar

1 egg white

2 tblsp butter, melted

1 cup flour

2 mini Hershey milk chocolate bars, broken

Like I said, this recipe couldn’t have been easier!

1. Combine banana and sugar in a medium size bowl. Mash using a fork (the sugar helps to get it really really mashed).

2. Add in peanut butter and stir until the peanut butter softens (mine was refrigerated since it’s natural) and incorporates fully.

3. Then add in the butter & egg white, continuing to stir with fork until stirred in and kind of “whipped” (this made the cake-cookies fluffy I think).

4. Dump in the flour, incorporate fully but don’t stir too much or the dough will start to get tough.

5. Lastly, break up your chocolate pieces (or use chocolate chips, go for it!) and fold half of them into the batter.

6. Spoon dough onto a cookie sheet sprayed with cooking spray, topping each one with a chunk o’ chocolate. I made 4 big cookies out of this, I would recommend keeping them big as well so they get that cake-like “fluff.”

7. Bake at 350F for about 15 minutes until the bottoms just start to brown/crisp up.

EATTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT!

Verdict?

Flavor was spot on. Texture was awesome, the inside was fluffy & light just like a cake and the outside had that cookie-like quality with a slight crisp to hold it all in. The random chocolate chunks were such a delight too!

I’d highly recommend giving these a whirl if you’re addicted to desserts and find yourself scrounging around the cabinets for something sweet a peanut butter & banana fan! I promise you won’t be sorry

Farmer’s market and ExerciseTV workout on the agenda this morning, I better get hoppin’!